Area Codes: 404

(Curd, 1A37) “The stars came into being from the earth because moisture rises up out of it. When the moisture becomes fine, fire comes to be and the stars are formed of fire rising aloft.” (Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies 1.7.4–6) Heraclitus (Curd, B126) “Cold things grow hot, a hot thing cold, a moist thing withers, a parched thing is moistened.” (John Tzetzes, Notes on the Iliad, p. 126 Hermann) Area Codes is a collection highlighting diffusion channels and the displacement of communication through localized variants of a global cultural heritage; humanity's shared historical oral-literary tradition. This collection is the lovechild of procedurally-generated fractals, digital han...View all